COAST Office Architecture

Maßstab 1:100 / ONE CHAIR : FOR HUNDREDS

Statement
Values such as compassion, solidarity, charity and responsibility are of existential importance to living in a global community. The design of our chair takes up this theme and is based on a change of scale. The miniature people face clearly in one direction, dem onstrating their resolution. Their determination to bring about changes.
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 450.00 Euro!
 

COASToffice architecture
Zlatko Antolovic / Alexander Wendlik
www.coastoffice.de

ippolito fleitz group GmbH

Statement
The Ippolito Fleitz Group highlights the role of unfathomable darkness. As part of an identity that is thankfully free of clearly defned limits. Like the unfathomed depths, personal perception should always harbour potential for new impressions. This is the key to conscious appraisal and discovery. Or to just joyfully abandoning ourselves to the depths.
 
Recent bid
59,00 Euro. Make your bid!
 

ippolito fleitz group GmbH
www.ifgroup.org

mori projects

Statement
The colour of the strapping cites the green from the South African fag, which in turn symbolises the unity of people of different origins and skin colours. As such, our Ono is also a nice metaphor for the dawning of a new age in which the fetters of the past can be cast off – simply by undoing the knots.
 
Erlös
This chair is already sold. It went for 100, 00 Euro!
 

mori projects
www.mori-space.com

RAISERLOPES Architekten / Innenarchitekten

„For all your belongings“

Statement
„For all your belongings“. We collected plenty of great ideas, only to be won over in the end by the lure of the simple and traditional: the time-honoured drawer to be found in kitchen tables or benches. We have given Ono a drawer. As the name suggests, Ono and the drawer are a team to meet practical day-to-day needs.
 
Erlös
This chair is already sold. It went for 800,00 Euro!
 

RAISERLOPES Architekten / Innenarchitekten
www.raiserlopes.com

Störmer Murphy and Partners

The Chair as a diary

Statement
The idea for this design came to me on a visit to the “Guga S‘Thebe” orphanage in Cape Town, where I was confronted with the wildness of wall paintings originating from the children’s lives and their impoverished social environment. Through the auction, this memory can now come full circle and help to enrich the children’s lives.
 
Erlös
This chair is already sold. It went for 300,00 Euro!
 

Störmer Murphy and Partners
www.stoermer-partner.de

Kleihues + Kleihues Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH

Statement
It is my challenging vocation to help shape the world in which we live. We see the archetypal surfaces making up a chair as its essential definin elements. Citing Gerrit Rietveld’s red-blue chair and its colouring, we have highlighted these surfaces.
 
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Kleihues + Kleihues Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH
www.kleihues.com

Roomarts

Color your life

Statement
The focus on children played a central role in our design idea for Ono. The different animals such as the lion, rhinoceros, giraffe and ostrich show the diversity and potential offered by the African continent. The playful manner in which the motifs are arranged alludes to the children whom the campaign aims to support. And help is needed now – for the sake of the future …
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 315,00 Euro!
 

Roomarts
www.roomarts.de

Ellis Williams Architects

Color your life

Statement
Start with WHITE and COLOUR YOUR LIFE and make it A SQUARE DEAL
 
Recent bid
150,00 Euro. Make your bid!
 

Ellis Williams Architects
www.ewa.co.uk

Steidle Architekten Gesellschaft von Architekten und Stadtplanern mbH

Statement
In these times of growing problems, we are delighted at the opportunity to take part in the AIT Charity Chair project. We hope that our minimalist alteration of the chair’s appearance will benefit the action to the max.
 
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Steidle Architekten Gesellschaft von Architekten und Stadtplanern mbH
www.steidle-architekten.de

hks ARCHITEKTEN + GESAMTPALNER GmbH

SAY Ono

Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 150,00 Euro!
 

Alles Wird Gut Architekten ZT GmbH

Statement
Trying to look at the chair through new eyes, we found the image of the lamp most suiting. The literal embodiment of the appearance of a new idea through a light bulb being turned on in one’s head. The “light chair” is not only the tranformation of a sitting chair but also the symbol of ideas that are to come. Ideas that hopefully will bring change to Capetown.
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 200,00 Euro!
 

Alles Wird Gut Architekten ZT GmbH
www.awg.at

caramel architekten zt gmbh

Statement
Following the charitable adage “share and share alike”, we decided to saw the Ono chair in two. We aim to share not only the chair, but also the possibility of sitting down and taking time out with several people. Creat-ing space for new ideas, as it were.
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 800,00 Euro!
 

gharakhanzadeh sandbichler architekten zt gmbh

O’NO!

Statement
O’NO!
What a compromise in design!

Just to make it look like a common chair…

Let’s see what it would look like if there were no compromised decisions!

To straighten out the curves between seat and back legs and eliminate the strange details at the back of the chair.
Hey, we might have to live with three legs! In that case it never can whip on the ground. The back is much lower this way, more like an office chair…

Looks sharp!
And you still can sit on it!
This form is also implicating new possibilities to combine the pieces.

Team: gharakhanzadeh sandbichler architekten
(Feria Gharakahanzadeh, Bruno Sandbichler), Martin Huber, Roman Britschgi und
Peter Sandbichler.
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 300,00 Euro!
 

Architekturbüro Plottegg

Statement
You can recognise a chair by its legs or its seat, or sometimes just by its back (for example when the view is obstructed by a table) … so, even pars pro toto, and you don’t mistake a chair for a stool or a bed. A chair is a chair … because it looks like a chair.
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 50,00 Euro!
 

Proyer & Proyer Architekten OEG

Statement
The basic idea behind helping others is simple:
SHARE what is available
The upshot is MORE FOR EVERYONE
PASS IT ON
 
Recent bid
235,00 Euro. Make your bid!
 
Proyer & Proyer Architekten OEG
www.proyer.com

BKK3 Architektur ZT GmbH

mirror chair

Statement
Our time races by in the daily hustle and bustle
of the world around us. Rarely do we have an opportunity to take time out and consider ourselves and our place in the world. “Know yourself” – take a look in the mirror. In buying this chair at the auction YOU have thought about someone else, seen someone else’s side of the story. A moment of reflection that changes someone else’s life.
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 300,00 Euro!

Studio Architetto Mario Botta

Statement
„Come ‚personalizzare‘ una sedia? Alla maniera di Duchamp: con la fima!“ Mario Botta. How to lend a chair a personal touch? By signing it, Duchamp-style! The signature wich consists of holes on the chair’s backrest is filld with black paste to just below the wood surface.
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 950,00 Euro!

Architektur und Designbüro Pia Schmid

Statement
The AIT Charity Chair is not just an item of furniture but also an almost invisible message which reveals its TRUE COLOURS under the infuence of daylight. The colour responds to the time of day, accompanying the beholder on his own personal journey of discovery to his TRUE COLOURS.
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 300,00 Euro!

Riken Yamamoto + Beda Faessler Architekten

Statement
Our chair design is based on the projections “Lichtbrücke” in Berlin (2004) and “Pont lumière” in Geneva (2005). The surface is compromised; the projection of water in motion raises questions as to its solidity. Everyday certainties are called into question. Accordingly, sitting down on the chair will call for a degree of resolve in the face of such uncertainty.

 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 300,00 Euro!

Riken Yamamoto + Beda Faessler Architects
www.ya-fa.ch

Bob Gysin & partner BGP Architekten ETH SIA

The (im)balancing act

Statement
AIT Charity Chair – The (im)balancing act. The chair is to lend expression to the unease and insecurity engendered by the problems of our times in a playful manner. To this end, one leg has been removed to provide the chair with an imbalanced appearance. The new leg made of acrylic glass does not suggest the same stability as its wooden predecessor.

 
Recent bid
70,00 Euro. Make your bid!

Bob Gysin & partner BGP Architekten ETH SIA
www.bgp.ch

Group A

The ´Xhosa´ Charity Chair – reciprocity through design

Statement
GROUP A´s approach to designing the ONO Charity Chair bears great resemblance to our approach to designing in general. We search for integrated solutions that are practical as well as beautiful, solutions that cross the boundaries of scale.

We are an international studio for architecture with an open and exploring outlook; we work enthusiastically on a broad range of projects. Over the past thirteen years we have worked on offices and theatres, industrial buildings and housing projects, redevelopments and museums. Also, we work on projects of differing scale, comprising concept studies, strategies and urban plans, architecture, interiors and tailor-made product designs. We are convinced of the need to treat interior design, architecture and the surrounding urban landscape as mutually interactive parts of any design solution.

A chair never stands alone; it is part of a larger unity, surrounding a dining table or with other chairs and sofa´s, often facing inward. To strengthen this unity, and to emphasize the contrast between the ´inner circle´ and the ´outside world´,
GROUP A decided to give both the inside´ and the ´outside´ of the ONO charity chair a different appearance. We therefore decided to upholster parts of the chair with fabric. This will have the additional effect of strengthening the chairs´ tactile qualities, emphasising its ergonomic function.

In order to establish a relationship between the inner circle and the outside world, we will make perforations in the fabric – so we can make visible what is hidden underneath – , and we will make perforations in the chair itself – so we can show a side of the fabric that was not meant to be seen, i.e. the back. Where the perforations in the fabric and the chair coincide, the inner circle and the outside world connect, and a whole new pattern emerges.

The patterns we used for the perforations are inspired by patterns used in traditional Xhosa face painting. These patterns are still widely used in South Africa, including in the Langa Township. By using these patterns in our design, we feel we go one step further than just making a contribution to the lives of the people in the Langa Township. The people of the Langa Township themselves also contribute to the design of our Charity Chair by inspiring us with their rich cultural heritage.

In our approach, we seek to address the same values as the Guga S´Thebe cultural centre and AIDS orphanage, which use this rich cultural heritage to strengthen the residents´ self-esteem. We feel both these initiatives have a very positive effect on the lives of the citizens in the Langa Township, and we ourselves feel glad to be able to make a contribution.

 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 300,00 Euro!

Group A
www.groupa.nl

Wiel Arets Architects

Statement
´Not wanting to alter the physical attributes of the chair- Wiel Arets Architects instead chose to modify the chair´s composition by dividing it in half. Upon halving the chair, its wooded interior composition is exposed, no longer concealed by a white layer of paint. By reassembling the chair into one cohesive piece from these two halves, a new chair was created that leaves minimal alterations to the external appearance- yet completely redefines its structure and meaning. The chair is therefore a statement on change and composition; attempting to bring a physical form to the notion that positive change can be brought to the world through the smallest of acts – regardless of the scale and scope of the changes being made.´
 
Recent bid
115,00 Euro. Make your bid!
 

Hollandse Nieuwe concepts & design

Statement
The Ono chair becomes a community chair. South African townships gather together materials they fnd to form new cities. In a similar way, Hollandse Nieuwe have collected unused chairs together to combine with the Ono chair to create the beginning of a community furniture piece. The community chair is an invitation to sit and meet.
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold!
 

HofmanDujardin

OYES Magritte in Urbicande

Statement
In stead of transforming the chair we decided to transform the context. The chair stays the way it is, we only create a new surrounding stimulating the fantasy of the observer. After studying various options the final choice was to upscale the chair a 1000 times and place it in Cape Town, the final destination of the Charity project.

The chair becomes a model of a building with a height of 760m, an urban icon for Cape Town. The transformation lies within our own fantasy. The mental change due to the overwhelming scale, entirely compensates the absence of physical changement of the chair itself . While the ONO chair can be used by a maximum of two people, the OYES chair with a surface of 800.000m² can host about 50.000 people. An extremely generous chair!! Four slim feet of 25x30m will touch Cape Town in the business district and the harbor. These four new locations will be connected through identical towers with a height of 460m. Each foot will intervene in the existing urban fabric, connecting people from different areas.

The 800.000m² building will act as a social housing icon. Inhabitants of the Langa township can move to the city centre. Compact apartments are created in the slim feet of 25x30m. The level of the seat at a height of 460m becomes an open space of 450x450m suitable for a public park and soccer fields overlooking the ocean. The back support of the chair will be filled with apartments until a height of 760m. In between there are shops, offices, sport facilities, cinema, bars, restaurants etc. The OYES chair becomes the iconic symbol of charity, the second tallest building of the world is the shelter of the homeless people of the townships. High-rise for the poor on the South point of the African continent with a view at the Atlantic ocean. A charity project with an impact on humanity.

Power to the people, the skyline used to be dominated by churches, than the financial institutions took over. The time has come that charity and humanity determine the skyline of the future metropolis.

Magritte in Urbicande is the subtitle of the extreme structure. The chair as shown on the carpet is not a chair. As Magritte would say ’……ceci n’est pas une chaise……’
So what is it? It is a model of the worlds second highest building. It is the urban chair which joins to the Table mountain. It is the structure connecting four open plots in Cape Town and thus creating a splendid green park at 460m height offering a stunning view at the surroundings of Cape Town. The OYES chair seems to be a building copied from the city of Urbicande where the marvelous cubic structure enables the city to function better than ever before. The structure emphasizes on human contacts and creates new relations. The OYES chair shows us a dream, a beautiful thought, a structure which seems outrageous but also refined, appealing and exciting.

If you are able to dream, able to share and able to get excited, buy this chair. You get the carpet for free!!
Barbara Dujardin and Michiel Hofman

www.dsignboom.com/wblog/cat/9/viw/9791/hofman-dujardin-architcts-oys-chair.html

 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 800,00 Euro!
 

Claessens Erdmann architects designers

FLIP

Statement
Amsterdam, march 2010
Flip is created by all employees of Claessens Erdmann architects designers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We are a group of people from various nationalities and backgrounds in the fields of architecture, interior design, graphics, industrial design, management and strategy.

Our goal is to share something personal with the owner of the chair. For this purpose everybody designed one seat cover. By flipping the different covers over the back of the chair you can change its look whenever you want!
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 350,00 Euro!
 

Jestico + Whiles

Statement
A NEW CHAIR: NEW MEANING, NEW HOPE. We think of the chair as a metaphor for change for the poor in the Langa Township: a metaphor for transformation and improvement of the living conditions in African villages. Our design aims to communicate something about the beauty and character of African arts and crafts, style and culture.
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 100,00 Euro!
 

Allies and Morrison Architects

Statement
I decided to stage a street performance in London about an item of my recent work. Although this is not a design competition, the result of the auction will be to show the value of design. I don’t want to lose by presenting a chair with just a signature by the designer: I wanted to give it an identity and therefore chose the “LONDON” brand.
 
Proceeds
This chair is already sold. It went for 400,00 Euro!